Saint: 1095 books

Edmonde. Nous sommes en 1938, et le bal tragique commence. De Rome à Marseille, d’une alcôve l’autre, d’un palais l’autre, voici la fille de l’ambassadeur François Charles-Roux prête pour se marier, comme d’innombrables jeunes filles de son âge. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu. Arrachée...

Revisions like many of Augustine's works has a singular purpose. Composed in his old age he reviews nearly all his writings summarizing and correcting and even expressing regret. The Revisions is important not only for establishing the chronology of Augustine's works but also for providing insight into his own thought and self-evaluation.

Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The Partition caused a million deaths...

THE GREAT ILLUMINIST, Rosicrucian and Freemason who termed himself the Comte de St.-Germain is without question the most baffling personality of modern history. His name was so nearly a synonym of mystery that the enigma of his true identity was as insolvable to his contemporaries as it has been to later...

This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture—a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution—and the memoir of his son, Isaac. The Revolution and its leaders have been studied and written about extensively. Until recently (2004), however, the memoir...

A LAMBDA Notable Book, Goldie Award finalist, and IPPY Bronze Medalist....What do you get if you mix three beautiful women and their secrets with too many lawyers, corporate executives, and overzealous reporters? One highly public love triangle. And the more private a woman is the more exposed she...

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ the Crucified, and of His Mother the Virgin Mary. In this book are contained certain Little Flowers, Miracles and devout ensamples of the glorious mendicant of Christ, Messer St. Francis, and of certain of his Holy Companions, to the praise of Jesus Christ. Amen.

In the Proslogion St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's proof, known since the time of Kant as the ontological argument for the existence of God, has played an important role in the history of philosophy and has been incorporated in various forms into the...

Life is a cancer we mistake as beauty, this is the decomposing of prose encompassing feelings many thought long dead or resolute. “Never suspect the absolute to that which is not, unless you are awfully unambiguous.”

This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to them the old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns and...

Eğer biri, milyonlarca gezegen üzerinde tek bir eşi bile olmayan bir çiçeği severse, mutlu olması için o çiçeğe bakması yeter. Benim çiçeğim de işte oralarda bir yerlerde...Ama eğer bir koyun o çiçeği yerse, bu o kişi için tüm yıldızların bir anda sönmesi demektir.(Tanıtım...

Dünyada her yaştan okurun kalbine taht kurmuş, edebiyat tarihinin en önemli eserlerinden biridir Küçük Prens. Yazarın kendi suluboya resimleriyle görsel bir şölene dönüşen bu hikâye, küçük bir çocuğun kirlenmemiş, masum kalbiyle büyüklerin dünyasına bakışını anlatır....

Dünyada her yaştan milyonlarca okura ulaşan bu çağdaş klasik yapıt Kerem Topuz'un Fransızca aslından yaptığı özenli çeviriyle raflarda yerini alıyor. Hem büyüklere hem de okul çağı çocuklarına seslenen bu yapıt, başka bir gezegenden dünyaya gelen ve çölde kaybolan...

"Hoşça kal. İşte sana bir sır, çok basit bir şey: İnsan yalnız yüreğiyle doğruyu görebilir. Asıl görülmesi gerekeni gözler göremez."   (Tanıtım Bülteninden)